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IF and only by Choice.

The year is coming to a close. While it has been a a year where not much has been acheived, win some lose some they say…. It has neverthelessly been a year of many spiritual and emotional lessons and growth for me. I have gone on a hiatus in search of my own voice and identity [...]

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The Monk Talks: How Understanding Death Teaches Us To Care

(Alvin’s Note: Our dear fellow Life Coach, and passionate personal development extraodinaire, Paiboon Busayarak, has embarked on a 3 month initiation into Buddhist monkhood in his native Thailand. He just sent me this post via email sharing the conversations he’s had with his teacher. The words are his, the grammer tweaking is mine [...]

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Going Through A Difficult Time

I’m going through a rough patch right now, but without going into the details I’m going to take my own advice from 9 Keys to Overcoming Difficult Times plus number 10: take it easy. I’ll be on a short hiatus and will be publishing Uncle Paiboon’s posts in the meantime.

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Empowering Links: Week of 24th December

Best personal development resources for the week: Senia helps you discover the 4 ways you can tell who is happy; self-esteem, a sense of personal control, optimism and extraversion. Business Pundit opens up your eyes on how to network: for introverts. I like ‘at first, you have to kiss a lot of frogs’ and ‘go regularly to [...]

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What Would A Modern-Day Magician Say About God?

As a student of the esoteric science, specifically the western mysteries, I come across interesting questions from close friends regarding what I do and what I believe in. One of the most recent questions posed to me was an age-old popular one: do I believe in God and is there a ‘divine plan’? It’s a [...]

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Introducing A Modern-Day Magician

What would it be like to delve into the mind of an honest to goodness modern-day magician? I’ve known Eleutherios since we were both 15. We shared a common passion for spirituality, I suspect, because we’d both felt that there must be something more than just what we see, hear and feel in this life. I can [...]

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How To Make It Easier To Get Things Done

Do you know what you should do, but still don’t do it? Remember when you picked up your first personal development tip? I did, it was back in ’96 when I started devouring personal growth books like mad. While reading about those principles opened my eyes to new horizons, a few of them I put into practice…years [...]

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The Donation Check Is In The Mail

The Google Adsense check came early this month, and I confess, I procrastinated a tad bit But I’m very happy to also confess that I’ve donated 20% of it to Mercy Corps, the charity of my choice. This marks the first pledge in my 80/20 Life Coaches Blog Donation Pledge mission! Hurrah! Strangely enough, I [...]

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Why Go On When Life Is Meaningless?

I was re-watching The Matrix Revolutions the other day during a nice little party with my friends. We were just finishing the chicken wings when we got to this scene near the end of the movie (spoiler alert if you haven’t already seen it!). I loved it because it highlights the key to the question; why [...]

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Empowering Links: Week of 17th December

Best personal development resources for the week: Christine Kane reveals the 17 Things I Know for Sure About Creativity. I love number one: creativity cures. Kathy Sierra shares 2 golden words to make you smarter, more patient and more understanding…hmm, interesting. I absolutely love these 2 manifestos submitted to Gaping Void: The Time Management Manifesto and the Don’t [...]

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